How is convict not the worst character in the game?

[Teddio]

Looking at all the characters you can get, their tools and the strengths and weaknesses she seems to have the least going for her.

Her passive is bad as you never want to get hit in this game. It reduces your loot payout and prevent mastery rounds for bosses. it is only good to speed kill a boss if you keep getting hit. Her pistol is the 2nd worst in the game, and the shotgun got decent utility, but crap range, making it poo beyond the first floor. Her active is also meh, as it is decent Area of denial and bonus damage, but it is slow to refill, and takes up an active slot.

Every other character brings more to the late game and even mid game then she does.

[MrWhopperwithfries]

The nice thing about her is that I don't feel like I'm missing out when I sell off her items to the sell creep.

[Hand's Hermit Permit]

Budget revolver is actually one of the best. Everything else is indeed junk.

[Constantine]

For me it goes like this :
7th Pilot ( only his passive is good but if you are experienced you will always have enough money to do what you want and even fight the RR.
6th Convict for the very same reasons you stated on your post.
5th Hunter cause she is just meh.
4th Soldier since his start weapon is awesome and starts with armor.
3rd Paradox he is really good but the 2 that follow are simply better.
2nd Bullet because of his OP start weapon and no damage if you come in contact with enemies
1st Gunslinger since he has an amazing start weapon and the most OP passive in the game

[Teddio]

Originally posted by Hand's Hermit Permit:

Budget revolver is actually one of the best. Everything else is indeed junk.

It is a five round clip. The only good thing is that it can be spammed really fast, but the hunters can spam hers, it does more damage, goes further and got an extra bullet. The marine gun is also the most comfy, with a 10 round clip, great accuracy and good reload. She beats the pilot but only because his gun is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. T

[Teddio]

Originally posted by Constantine:

For me it goes like this :
7th Pilot ( only his passive is good but if you are experienced you will always have enough money to do what you want and even fight the RR.
6th Convict for the very same reasons you stated on your post.
5th Hunter cause she is just meh.
4th Soldier since his start weapon is awesome and starts with armor.
3rd Paradox he is really good but the 2 that follow are simply better.
2nd Bullet because of his OP start weapon and no damage if you come in contact with enemies
1st Gunslinger since he has an amazing start weapon and the most OP passive in the game

Hmm, I can't see the pilot as the worst as all of his stuff is useful through the game. Extra ammo means your guns will get more use. An added inventory slot means you can have two invicibility items, which is busted. He can also pick locks if you have no key. He got constant utility to make the best of what he got, so I cannot see him being worse than convict.

[MrWhopperwithfries]

Pilot might be ranked higher or lower because he depends allot on luck.
Edit: His passive item is really good though, even if you don't use his lockpicks at all it makes it really easy to buy keys and the like.

[Hand's Hermit Permit]

Originally posted by Teddio:

Originally posted by Hand's Hermit Permit:

Budget revolver is actually one of the best. Everything else is indeed junk.

It is a five round clip. The only good thing is that it can be spammed really fast, but the hunters can spam hers, it does more damage, goes further and got an extra bullet. The marine gun is also the most comfy, with a 10 round clip, great accuracy and good reload. She beats the pilot but only because his gun is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. T

High damage, fast fire rate, fast reload. Only downside is accuracy is bad, but that's just fine for the upsides.

[Phirestar]

I agree, she definitely has the weakest starting kit.

I remember when I thought the Budget Revolver was especially terrible, back when I didn’t know that you could mash the fire button to shoot faster. It certainly made the item more appealing, and I started using it, but I’m still not a huge fan of the very low clip size and spread. It’s barely any better than the Sawed Off, in that regard.

But she’s still my favorite character.

[zverozvero]

Her kit is rather good for starter bosses that can burn and revolvers low clip is more or less mitigated with quick bursts into reload while rolling. But side from that - yes, her kit is good mostly to sell, munch or peck suspicious walls for cracks.

[The Fool]

Budget Revolver is the highest-damage starting gun when you spam it (well, except maybe the slinger, I don't know its numbers). Shotgun and molotov aren't terrible.

I like her the least of the 4, but at most she's not too far behind.

[MrSlippery]

The Convict is my favorite character.

Her Budget Revolver has the highest DPS. The Sawed-Off is awesome (well beyond the first chamber), and her Molotov can destroy a good number of bosses.

I guess it just depends on your play-style.

[Tyler]

Convict isn't so bad. She's pretty damn amazing in Boss Rush depending on gun drops or if you're in Rainbow mode.

I find it funny that nearly every time I see people saying the Pilot is the worst, it also seems they were hoping to rely on his lockpick, which fail for me way more than 50% of time. Pretty much 100% on locked doors I swear. He's my default choice though. I almost always find enough keys for chests. I love his extra ammo and items slot, though it's usually when I play another character that I'll actually find two active items I end up having to choose between.

[BOYCOTT]

actually the thing that kills the idea of playing the pilot for me is how terrible his sidearm is, you can really only fight at short(ish) range effectively with it due to how ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ terrible the accuracy is.

[zverozvero]

I like that Pilot basically forces me out of using sideard all game long and often provides alternatives between lockpick, discount and extended ammo.
Better sidearms gets really sticky to the point that using improvement in D/C weapons feels unwieldy and overall worse.

[Darthzz]

Originally posted by GenerallyTyler:

Convict isn't so bad. She's pretty damn amazing in Boss Rush depending on gun drops or if you're in Rainbow mode.

I find it funny that nearly every time I see people saying the Pilot is the worst, it also seems they were hoping to rely on his lockpick, which fail for me way more than 50% of time. Pretty much 100% on locked doors I swear. He's my default choice though. I almost always find enough keys for chests. I love his extra ammo and items slot, though it's usually when I play another character that I'll actually find two active items I end up having to choose between.

I'm mixed on pilot. He has THE WORST starting pistol in the game IMO and I legit can hardly stand how sluggish it's speed is and how awful the accuracy is, but I like the discount, the extra active slot and think the lockpick is alright when used correctly.